Edwardes, MichaelHigh Noon of Empire India under CurzonLondon Eyre & Spottiswoode 1965 1st Edition Hardback Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ is price clipped and now protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. 266 pages This book is a view of British India when it reached its Zenith at the turn of the 19th century. The author looks at the vice-royalty of Lord Curzon and his attempt to revive and re-state the crusading purpose that the British had abandoned after the Mutiny of 1857. ID251638
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18.00 AUD

Edwardes, MichaelThe Necessary Hell. John and Henry Lawrence and the Indian EmpireLondon Cassell 1958 1st Edition Hardback Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Red cloth boards. Black & white illustrations. 213 pages This is not a biography of the Lawrences but rather uses the experiences of these two people to illuminate the structure of nineteenth century India. ID273315
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20.00 AUD

Elvin, MarkAnother History Essays on China from a European PerspectiveBroadway, NSW Wild Peony Pty Ltd 1996 0646204130 / 9780646204130 1st Edition Softcover Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Black & white illustrations. Some neat ink references to rear free endpaper. 390 pages Mark Elvin is the Professor Emeritus of Chinese History at Australian National University, This collection of essays also includes one on his theory ' the high-level equilibrium trap' which explains why an industrial revolution happened in Europe but not in China. ID277500
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75.00 AUD

Epstein, T.S.Economic Development and Social Change in South IndiaManchester Manchester University Press 1964 Reprint Hardback Octavo Size. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in plastic cover. Slight abrasion to upper portion of DJ where sticker has been removed; DJ spine age darkened. xvi, 353pp ID234456
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15.00 AUD

Goldstein, Melvyn C.A History of Modern Tibet Volume 2 The Calm Before the Storm 1951-1955Berkeley, CA University of California Press 2007 0978520249417 1st Edition Hardback Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 639 pages This is the second volume of the History of Tibet and revises our understanding of that key period in middle of the 20th century - beginning with the 1951 Communist Chinese invasion of Tibet, and focuses on the years of Mao Zedong's government, a period in which China and the Dalai Lama tried to work out a way to coexist. ID292386
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35.00 AUD

Hamid, Major-General ShahidDisastrous TwilightLondon Leo Cooper 1986 043619077 1st Edition Hardcover Octavo Size. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in plastic cover. DJ chipped and creased along top edge. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Maps to endpapers. Book review and Corrigendum to the Introduction glued to front free endpapers. xix.364 pages A personal record of the Partition of India by the Private Secretary to Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck 1946-1947. with a Foreword by Philip Ziegler. Maj.-Gen. Shamid was a highly ranked Indian officer and Moslem which makes this a less familiar account of the Partition process and outcomes. At least one of the reviews of this book [by renowned historian, John Keegan] says 'As a memorialist of the last Viceroyalty he is without peer.' ID233485
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30.00 AUD